Foreue – Natural Skin Care (Handmade & Vegan)

Coconut oil is considered a top choice in soap making. Just the vision of an opened creamy white coconut conjures up the words smooth and silky. Just how does this magnificent oil do its job?
Being an important ingredient in the “Cold Process Method” for soap preparation, coconut oil mixed with lye causes a chemical reaction called saponification. The resulting reaction is soap.

The first contribution coconut oil adds to handmade soaps is hardness to the bar. This will be very important if one is looking to make a stable, very white bar of soap as the base.

Next, coconut oil creates big, fluffy lightweight bubbles. Children and grownups alike can’t resist squishing a few bubbles in between their fingers during bath time. However, coconut oil does not produce a stable lather. That is not to say that coconut oils will not lather. It actually will improve the lather of a recipe by 10%! The key word here is stable (long lasting.) Other oils may be added to your coconut soap if one is looking for stable lather.

Coconut oil incorporated as a soap ingredient coats the skin to help retain moisture in our skin.  Surprisingly it also improves the skin of those with sensitive, inflamed or irritated skin.

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